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magdalen

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for magdalen.

Editorial note

There are scholars that argue that Mary Magdalen and Mary of Bethany are the same person, which was the impetus for my question.

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Quick take

A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Magdalene.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of magdalen gathered in one view.

noun

A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Magdalene.

noun

Alternative form of Magdalene (“a reformed prostitute”). [A female given name from Hebrew.]

noun

(Oxford University, informal) Ellipsis of Magdalen College, Oxford.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for magdalen.

noun

A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Magdalene.

noun

Alternative form of Magdalene (“a reformed prostitute”). [A female given name from Hebrew.]

noun

(Oxford University, informal) Ellipsis of Magdalen College, Oxford.

Example sentences

1

There are scholars that argue that Mary Magdalen and Mary of Bethany are the same person, which was the impetus for my question.

2

I doubt that the classicists at Magdalen college have ever turned a profit over the centuries, but that doesn't mean that they had trouble recruiting competent people.

3

After spending some time at Magdalen College, I bought every book I could by C.

4

I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College; they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life...

5

It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a student at Magdalen College, with the unlikely claim that he was being persecuted by the Bishop of Oxford.

6

The big, crunchy, discordant Amen in the Gloria of the Magdalen Service is my favourite - where the harmonies are offset by a crescendo/diminuendo/crescendo sequence in the choir, all on the same note.

7

I went to New, and loved it, and my thesis supervisor was at Magdalen which is just lovely in every conceivable way (he's also a pretty kickass Computer Scientist).

8

Removal of the Queen's portrait > Postgraduate students at Magdalen College have voted to remove a portrait of the monarch based on a photograph by Dorothy Wilding, taken in 1952, at the time she was crowned.

9

The number for _all_ of Québec is something like 98%, but that 2% is remote communities that can't reasonably be connected to the provincial grid (like the Magdalen Islands).

10

I met a number of their journalists over the years including a professor who had wrote for them at one point (he was an Oxford PPE graduate although I am not sure if it was Magdalen college) and saw how the sausage was made first hand and how selective they were with the truth if it didn't fit their narrative.

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But you could get two protected tracks along the Cowley Road as far as Marsh Road, assuming you reworked the road furniture and parking spaces; one protected track along the Iffley Road from the Plain to somewhere round Magdalen Road, and two from there on; two along most of Headington/London Road, Marston Road, and so on.

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>However, as Magdalen was a great believer in the importance of biological sex, and didn’t believe lesbians should be called bigots for not dating trans women with penises, dots were joined in the heads of twitter trans activists, and the level of social media abuse increased Wait, what?

Quote examples

1

Even more obscure things like "Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford" have multiple episodes.

2

Months later, I compounded my accidental ‘like’ crime by following Magdalen Burns on Twitter." That's crazy.

3

Let's go full quote, just so people don't get the impression that Magdalen was trying to make a fair and reasoned point: "You are fucking blackface actors.

4

The teacher said "Magdalen College"--at Oxford, you know.

Proper noun examples

1

And they pronounce 'Magdalen' as 'maudlin' because that's briefly how people pronounced it hundreds of years ago.

2

Magdalen College, Oxford (and later Cambridge University) provided him accomodations as well as a scholarly income from his professorship.

3

You see it in the Penitent Magdalen, which dispenses with supernatural trappings, and places the emphasis on Mary's interior state.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use magdalen in a sentence?

There are scholars that argue that Mary Magdalen and Mary of Bethany are the same person, which was the impetus for my question.

What does magdalen mean?

A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Magdalene.

What part of speech is magdalen?

magdalen is commonly used as noun.